A method for implanting a neural prosthetic drug delivery apparatus into a target zone of a patient's brain for reducing or eliminating the effects of tinnitus. The apparatus includes a catheter which is inserted into the patient's auditory cortex or thalamus. The catheter microinfuses drugs which suppress or eliminate abnormal neural activity into geometrically separate locations of the patient's cortex or thalamus, thereby reducing or eliminating the effects of tinnitus.
Patent
Methods for treating tinnitus by drug microinfusion from a neural prosthesis inserted in the brain
United States Patent and Trademark Office
10/14/1997
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Methods for treating tinnitus by drug microinfusion from a neural prosthesis inserted in the brain
- Creators
- Matthew A Howard III (Inventor)Timothy M McCulloch (Inventor)Carol A Bauer (Inventor)
- Contributors
- University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, IA, US) (Assignee)
- Resource Type
- Patent
- Publisher
- United States Patent and Trademark Office; United States
- Patent
- US Patent 5,676,655; Published; 08/597,355; 02/06/1996; 604/116; 604/151
- Number of pages
- 21 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/14/1997
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; UI Research Foundation; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9983762087702771
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